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Dugan Glass Company The Dugan Company was formed in 1904 when Thomas E.A. Dugan bought the Northwood Glass Works in Indiana, Pennsylvania, from the National Glass Co. Dugan developed his own lines – Venetian – Pompeian – and Japanese – of iridescent pre-carnival ware as “proletarian” alternative to both Bohemian imports and expense domestic art glass such as Tiffany, Stueuben and Quezal. Information courtesy of James Wroda, August 2009. The Wiener Werkstatte The Austrian equivalent of the English Arts and Crafts Movement, the Wiener Werkstatte [VEEN-er VEHRK-shtet-teh] (German for “Vienna Workshop”) was a direct offshoot from the fin-de-siacle Vienna Secession. Together, Josef Hoffmann (1870 to 1956) and Koloman Moser founded the Wiener Werkstatte Produktiv-Gemeinschaft von Kunsthandwerken, Wien (the Viennese Workshop and Production Cooperative of Art Works in Vienna) in 1903 as an association of artists and craftspeople working together to manufacture fashionable household [...] Click here to continue reading. Goofus Glass Goofus Glass is a type of inexpensive American late 19th century/early 20th century pressed glass which has cold-painted decoration or highlighting. The name “Goofus Glass” is generic to the type and it’s origin a matter of folklore. Some say that people thought the manufactures were trying to “Goof-us”, i.e. fool them with a substitute for more expensive glass. Others say that the tendency for the ware’s decoration to chip caused to people [...] Click here to continue reading. The C. F. Monroe Co. The C.F. Monroe Co. operated a glass manufacturing and decorating factory from 1880 to 1916 in Meridian, Connecticut. Its three primary products were “Wave Crest”, “Nakara” and “Kelva” decorated art glass wares. These wares are very similar in form and decoration and are distinguished most easily by their associated marks. Monroe imported glass blanks from France and purchased others from the Pairpoint glass company for decoration with satin and [...] Click here to continue reading. Westward Ho Pattern Pressed Glass A clear pressed glass with frosted relief designs comprising a pioneer’s log cabin with charging buffalo and fleeing deer in scenes of mountain and plain, Westward Ho was first produced by the Gillinder & Sons glassworks of Philadelphia in 1877. All the pattern’s pieces with a clear cover are surmounted by a frosted crouching Indian finial. Designed by the German mold-maker Jacobus for the Gillinder glassworks, Westward Ho found [...] Click here to continue reading. Quezal Art Glass Named for the Central American Quetzal – a bird with brilliantly colored plumage – the Quezal Art Glass and Decorating Co. was founded in 1902 by two glassmakers, Martin Bach and Thomas Johnson, formerly working with Louis Comfort Tiffany. Their products were very similar to Tiffany’s art glass work like “Favrile” in its iridescent forms of blue, green, gold and white. Because of its quality and technical excellence the company soon [...] Click here to continue reading. Milk Glass Battleships Many of these covered dishes were the product of condiment purveyor E. C. Flaccus Company of Wheeling, West Virginia, founded in 1877. Its leader, George A. Flaccus, was granted a design patent in 1898 for a “shipping vessel” container. As a dominant player in its market Flaccus often designed their own proprietary condiment containers and this design patent led to their classic battleship covered dishes, including those embossed Wheeling, Oregon and [...] Click here to continue reading. Consolidated Lamp & Glass Company The Consolidated Lamp and Glass Company was formed in Fostoria, Ohio in 1893 from the merger of the Fostoria Shade and Lamp Company with Wallace and McAffee Company. They moved to Coraopolis, Pennsylvania when their glassworks burned down in 1895. In the 1890′s they produced some art glass vases and bowls, but for many years their main production was high quality lamps, globes and shades. Beginning in 1925 its [...] Click here to continue reading. Slag Glass Slag glass is defined as colored, opaque glass wih an altenate color swirled throughout giving the appearance of marbling. For this reason it is sometimes called marble or malachite or mosaic glass. Popular colors include butterscotch, green and purple. The name has been used by glass-makers only in recent times and is derived from the belief that the colors were acheived by adding “slag” from iron smelting works to the glass. [...] Click here to continue reading. Ruba Rombic Glass & Muncie Pottery In 1927 Reuben Haley designed an Art Deco line of glassware called Ruba Rombic for the Consolidated Glass Company of Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. This art glass line was introduced to the trade in January 1928 at the annual industry show at the Fort Pitt Hotel in Pittsburgh. Consolidated produced all the Ruba Rombic wares except for a very rare fish bowl produced by the Phoenix Glass Co. All Ruba [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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